Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Risk Management Approach Could Motivate Climate Change Action
Is it possible that modern society’s bitter political divisions over belief in anthropogenic climate change is distracting decision-makers from the far more practical matter of confronting the risk that it presents, directly or indirectly, to businesses and the economy?
Five Ways to Open a Meeting
Is there a right way to open a business meeting? In “‘Stepping Stones’ in Opening and Closing Department Meetings,” recently published in the […]
The Power of Speech
Gabrielsen, J., & Christiansen, T. J. (2010). The Power of Speech. Copenhagen, Denmark: Hans Reitzels, 187 pp. Success in the workplace often […]
Weekly Overview of Social Science News
The Republican war on Social Science, Natural Science and Social Science combine, and more on your weekly overview of Social Science News.
Sarah Franklin on the Sociology of Reproductive Technology
New technologies have dramatically changed choices around reproduction. Sarah Franklin, Professor of Sociology at Cambridge University, discusses her research
Round-up of recent social science research (from SAGE Insight)
Romantic jealousy and relationship closeness From SAGE Open If Romeo and Juliet had mobile phones From Mobile Media & Communication Is ‘gene talk’ used […]
Round-up of recent social science research (from SAGE Insight)
The failures of governance that have led to the “Great Recession” and the end of public trust From Administration & Society Safe sex […]
Doreen Massey on Space
In honor of the late Doreen Massey, an eminent geographer who died Friday at age 72, we repost her Social Science Bites podcast, which has long been one of our most popular. In this interview, Massey asked us to rethink our assumptions about space — and explained why.
